adminAUGUSTA. — England’s Danny Willett was the shock winner of the 80th Masters golf title thanks to a bogey-free final round and an epic back-nine collapse by defending champion Jordan Spieth.
Willett fired a five-under par 67 for a three-shot victory that brought the 28-year-old Englishman the green jacket symbolic of victory at Augusta National as well as a $1.8 million top prize from the $10 million purse.
“It’s crazy. It’s surreal,” Willett said. “Words can’t describe the emotions and feelings. You do something special and it still doesn’t quite sink in what you have achieved.”
Willett, five down to Spieth with six holes to play, birdied the par-5 13th, par-4 14th and par-3 16th to charge into the clubhouse while the 22-year-old American endured a nightmare meltdown with bogeys at 10 and 11 and a quadruple bogey at the par-3 12th.
“I just put a couple of weak swings on it and suddenly I’m not leading anymore,” said Spieth. “I’ll be disappointed with that one.” — AFP.
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